Results 261-280 of 5,601 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I presume it was for the associated ground works as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The witnesses might forward the details of that project to us as well. The point I was making earlier is that, at some stage, projects become unviable or no longer provide value for money. The bike shelter is in that territory. A project that was important, well meant, necessary - all those things - got to a point where it just cost so much that it was not viable. My worry is that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Did the Department give the OPW an unlimited budget to do it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: With who?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The OPW was instructed by the Department to proceed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: It might be useful, as another Deputy requested, if the witnesses could provide us with the correspondence relating to that. The difficulty is that each side will be complex. The last time I spoke about this with Mr. Conlon, I raised our experience, dating back to when Deputy Kelly was a Minister, with the rapid-build sites in Finglas and Ballymun. At the time, everybody did what everybody...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Was that known from early on in the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Was Government informed of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I imagine part of the calculation was that all of these costs we are talking about are still cheaper or more cost-effective than using hotels and other forms of temporary rented accommodation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps that is the first question Members of the Thirty-fourth Dáil should ask.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I want to return to the discussion we had earlier on the bike shelter. Ms Morrison informed the committee that there was approximately €120,000 for the adjacent EV charging project? Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I apologise. I wanted to make sure I got it right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of course, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I park my car every day on perfectly good tarmac in Leinster Lawn; it does not detract from the building. Who decided that granite paving was essential?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: By the Dublin conservation team.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That was one of the areas where there is a glaring waste of money when the paving was half the cost of the structure above it. I ask Ms Collier to bear with me. We then get to the groundworks. What did the groundworks entail?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That was approximately €10,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: On site, it would appear that some of the groundworks we have seen carried out, are connected for EV chargers that are immediately adjoining it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Did the groundworks connect them to those EV chargers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Looking at the works, several trenches connect the EV charger points with the bike shelter.